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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Red Battery LED keeps blinking

I have a Dell Mini 9 which has a battery that sucks. It can only last a couple of minutes without being attached before it dies. Anyways, I didn't really care about this until I installed 'acpi' so I could get information about my battery and temperature sent to me.

But since then the red battery LED has just kept blinking. Even when the adapter is plugged in. Its been blinking for the past two hours now... I'm not sure what its trying to warn me about but its irritating. How can I turn it off?

I'm not sure what information to give in this case, so sorry I don't have anything in this post for you guys. But I can pull up anything that will help fix this problem.

Thanks.

ns89

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Registered: 2010-09-28

Posts: 7

Re: Red Battery LED keeps blinking

A couple minutes? That seems strange.
Try:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info

This should give you some info on the battery and possibly tell you if the battery is bad or not.

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